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A collection of mounted sepia photographs recording the German experience of the first world war. These postcard sized images from the Hamburg firm, Knackstedt and Co, range across both eastern and w...
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A collection of mounted sepia photographs recording the German experience of the first world war. These postcard sized images from the Hamburg firm, Knackstedt and Co, range across both eastern and we...
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[4 pp 'New Books' Advert for Whittaker & Co] [Foldout Engraved Map of all Ireland] xii, [1] pp 2-349 [1] 2 pp Adverts; Vol II [Foldout Chart of the River Shannon] viii, [1] pp 2-348 A pleasingly ...
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[photographic frontispiece] viii, [1] pp 2-338 [2] A superbly inscribed copy of Andrew Carnegie's account of a summer coach tour around the British isles. This copy was signed during Carnegie's summer...
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[2] pp 3-360, 381-532, [12] The rare Douai-printed second edition of the English translation of St Francis De Sales Introduction to a Devoute Life. The book is complete but for two leaves, pp 525-528...
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[3] pp 4-193 [1] A single volume of Montfaucon's landmark work on archaeology with all 46 dramatic copper plate illustrations as called for. Montfaucon's cornucopia includes items held in collections...
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Eleven Parts of this Catalogue of the Holdings of the Yorkshire Herbarium - missing Part VII. The Catalogue is undated but appears to date from the turn of the twentieth century. The eleven sections a...
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Edward Everard, Tailors' Courts, Broad Street, Bristol, 1897. This album compiled at the end of the nineteenth century contains more than a thousand examples of cut and mounted envelope crests. These ...
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[8] [1] pp 2-126 (14 Full Page Photographic Plates) A lithographic reprint of the account first published in 1900 of the excavations at Enkomi, Curium and Amathus. The book is handsomely bound in red ...
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Gathered Fragments £165
An uncommon memoir of the Quaker George Dillwyn which is distinguished by the presence of two albumen photographs. This is Gernsheim 81, illustrated by two photographic illustrations taken by Richard...
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George Robert Gleig £1150
xvi, [1] pp 2-467 Gleig\'s military essays inscribed to Winston Churchill\'s father on leaving Eton in 1865. The inscription from a friend is written in brown ink on the blank leaf before the title pa...
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Hints on Hockey £85
[5] pp 6-99 [100] An early guide to playing hockey by the English international de Lisle Solbe. Illustrated with diagrams Solbe works his way through field plans, notes on players and positions befor...
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[2] pp 1-6 A controversial pamphlet bearing a false imprint, being published in London, not Oxford as stated, on December 12 1642. The pamphlet dates from the first months of the Civil War after Charl...
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[Frontispiece] [6] pp 1-152 [4] An extremely scarce example of the first English translation of Artemidorus's resonantly titled Interpretation of Dreams. Robert Wood's translation from the French by ...
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vi, pp 1-213 [1] The MCC\'s own record of matches and scores for 1908. Bound in red cloth with the MCC monogram in gilt on the front board, the binding is sound with minor discolouration to the boards...
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[21; Engraved Title and 19 Plates] John Tinney's English edition of Charles Le Brun's Expressions of the Passions. The book which is undated but is thought to have appeared in the 1750s is made up of...
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On the Origin of Species £1400
[v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] pp 2-596 [folding diagram opposite p 132] The fifth edition of Darwin's Origin of Species in its original green sand-grain cloth binding. The front and rear boards have panels ...
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[8 plates] [10] pp 1-298, Index [14] [Wanting Portrait and Map] The first edition of Frick's Voyages to the East Indies. The text is complete with eight engravings, most folding, bound in. Only the ...
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pp 1-3 An offprint inscribed by Henry Hicks. Hicks has written on the front cover: 'From the Author' The pamphlet has several library markings including a stamp from the Geological Survey Museum Lib...
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Volume I [4] pp 1-184 [Frontispiece]; Volume II [4] pp 1-168 An unusual miscellany of folklore and rural customs. These include items such as 'Going a Hodening. A Curious Custom in Kent.' 'Dance-Maine...
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[3 Volumes] A Very Good Three Volume Set of Donald Wing's monumental bibliography of printed books in England and in English between 1641 and 1700. This is a good looking set in the original grey-bro...
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pp 255-295 A signed offprint of this account of glaciation in the north east of Ireland. John Kaye Charlesworth has written in the top right corner of the printed wrappers: 'W M Bromehead with the au...
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This extraordinary work of homage to D H Lawrence is in the form of a large box with a draw that has been designed to look like a gigantic copy of Lawrence's St Mawr. The construction is of wood with ...
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A nineteenth century facsimile reprint of this great work of Swedish topography. This edition presents 361 pages of plates, many of them folding or multi-folding. In addition to the title pages there ...
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[frontispiece] [2] [i] ii-vii [2] pp 8-409 [1] A fine example of this 1885 printing of Oliver Twist in the rare original Dustjacket printed in black on tan paper and reproducing in part the design of ...
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[frontispiece] [3] pp 4-32; [1] pp 2-123 [124] The Gentle Shepherd given by the wife of the Arts and Crafts designer as a gift to C R Ashbee, her husband. Inscribed on the endpaper by Janet Ashbee, \'...
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[lithographic frontispiece] [2] pp 3-69 [lacking pp 5-8] A presentation copy of this humorous, illustrated volume tentatively ascribed to 1853 from evidence in the text. Ackermann's unknown editor has...
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pp 1-24; [36] [18 signed photographs of members] The inaugural volume of the proceedings of Glasgow's late nineteenth century Fortnightly Club. Expensively bound in full green leather with marbled end...
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[22] [1] pp 2-256 Volume I and II, bound together, of the Supplement to Montfaucon's landmark work on archaeology with 54 dramatic copper plate illustrations. Montfaucon's cornucopia includes items he...
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[2] pp 1-158 An early edition of George Berkeley's Three Dialogues in a recently restored half leather binding. The Three Dialogues appear here in a stand-alone edition which ESTC suggests may be a s...
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[v] vi-x [3] pp 4-519 [520] [2] A signed 1909 edition of Towards Democracy by the socialist and pioneer gay writer, Edward Carpenter. The book is signed on the front free endpaper 'Langdon Everard fr...
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Villette £250
[Frontispiece] xxxvii, pp 1-594, [6] adverts. An inscribed copy of Charlotte Bronte\'s Villette, given by Mrs Humphry Ward to the future Clementine Churchill. Mary Ward has inscribed the front endpap...
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Voyages and Travels £350
[Ellis] xvi, pp 1-128 [Dana] [6] pp 1-124 [Cleveland] xii, pp 1-124 [Pringle] xvi, pp 1-116. A scarce publisher's compilation volume containing the 1840 Moxon edition of Ellis's 'Late Embassy to China...
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pp 1-260 An extraordinarily detailed catalogue of military hardware available from Francis Bannerman's store at 501 Broadway, New York. As the advertising copy boasts on the printed front page of the ...
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